A list of resources from around the Web about nuclear energy. This selection includes articles, editorials, and other material as a way to help faculty use current events to discuss nuclear energy and its relationship to society, business and government within the curriculum.

The global energy sector is at a crossroads. This has sparked a heated debate about the most appropriate energy mix in those countries that are considering the use of nuclear power and renewable energy, and in companies that are committed to tackling climate change...

A leading Canadian mining company had recently closed two uranium mines and begun the lengthy and complex regulatory process to obtain approval of their clean-up plans for the mine, surface facilities and waste management areas...

With the nuclear issue back on the agenda worldwide, this highly topical collection steers a path through these controversies, presenting the views of proponents of nuclear expansion, examining the challenges that face them and exploring the arguments of those who support alternative approaches.

Based in Saskatoon, Cameco was the world's largest uranium mining company. The case centres on whether the same corporate social responsibility policy developed in Canada can be applied to the company's joint venture with the Kyrgyzstan government to operate a gold mine in eastern Kyrgyzstan.

In March 2002, during a scheduled refueling outage, workers at FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant found a football-sized hole in the reactor head caused by boric acid corrosion. FirstEnergy projected the outage would last two to three months and cost from $15 million to $30 million. Instead, the outage lasted 26 months and cost $588.9 million.

The present volume probably provides the largest and most complete collection of data concerning the negative consequences of Chernobyl on the health of people and on the environment. The main conclusion of the book is that it is impossible and wrong “to forget Chernobyl.” Over the next several future generations the health of people and of nature will continue to be adversely impacted.

Fluor Corporation has always prided itself on its competence in safety. It was a core value of the company, and Fluor had achieved remarkable safety records on complex projects all over the world. But now, in the spring of 1997, Fluor found itself managing the western hemisphere's largest environmental clean-up site, the Hanford reservation in Washington State.

Texas could be one of the main centres of any nuclear revival. Dallas-based energy group TXU Corp has said it was considering building up to 6,000MW of nuclear capacity at up to three sites in Texas, with an aim of starting power generation between 2015 and 2020...

Constellation Energy is convinced that nuclear power is on the verge of a renaissance, ready to provide reliable electricity at a competitive price. Their neighboring utility, the PPL Corporation, takes a different view. "There are better places to put the money of shareholders", Mr. Hecht of PPL said. Constellation's decisions have implications beyond the corporate bottom line...

There is no recipe for pulling an organization through a crisis. You have to think on your feet. This case study shows that even in a complex, high-pressure industry openness to learning can light the way.

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them.

Although engineering ethics classes at technical institutes are common in the USA, they have been rare in Japan, and were very rare in 1996 when I was asked by the Kanazawa Institute of Technology to design, implement and teach a class on engineering ethics for undergraduate students...

This case uses the design and construction of the billion-dollar Long Island Lighting Company's Shoreham nuclear power plant to illustrate the challenges associated with the planning and implementation of a mega-project. Since completion of the construction phase of the project, public concerns about safety, environmental issues and significant increases in utility rates imposed external pressures which prevented the operation of the facility.